Digital Common Sense

September 19, SecurityNewsPortal.com Security vendor warns of Googlespoofing worm. There is a new Google worm, called P2Load.A and it is being spread on peertopeer programs like Shareaza and Imesh. According to Forrest Clark, senior manager of consumer product marketing with antivirus vendor Panda Software, the worm is posing as a free version of the Lucasfilm game “Knights of the Old Republic II.” P2Load.A first began spreading on Wednesday and is most widely spread in the U.S. and Chile, Clark said. Users that download this game are finding themselves installing a new work and then receiving poor Google search results. This is done in installation which changes the browser when a user is trying to access Google. Instead of reaching Google the user is directed to a spoof site, hosted on a server in Germany.
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Filed by Ken at 8:53 am under InfoSec, Technology